Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer

Location: West London – currently operating an agile working policy with three core days in the office

Contract: Permanent

Pattern: Full Time (standard hours 9am – 5.30pm)

Closing date: 02/03/2023 at 10am

Salary: £45,000 to £55,000 - negotiable depending on experience

This is an excellent opportunity for an Executive Assistant who enjoys a fast-paced and ever-changing work environment and wants to work for a successful and well-established charity. You will provide a consistently high standard of support to allow our CEO, Lucy Heller, to operate efficiently and optimise the use of her time.

We are looking for someone who has a proactive and flexible approach to their work, is highly-organised with strong communication skills, has excellent MS Office skills and experience of inbox management and diary coordination.

You will also support the Strategic Adviser to the Board, Sally Morgan. This will account for approx. 10% of the time commitment and will focus primarily on diary management.

This role offers a rewarding opportunity for an experienced Executive Assistant who enjoys complex work and being part of a supportive team. You will work to build relationships across the organisation and have the confidence and competence to challenge appropriately so that the CEO and Strategic Adviser’s time is effectively deployed.

Key Responsibilities:

We’re an international charity, transforming lives through education. We exist to give every young person, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life. In the UK, we’re a network of 39 schools, educating around 28,500 pupils in areas where we can make the biggest difference and we’re recognised as one of the highest achieving academy groups in the country. We want to change the lives of children everywhere, not just in our own schools. So, we create and incubate Ventures designed not only to help pupils in Ark schools, but also to improve education systems.

You’ll be joining a group of like-minded, ambitious individuals who work collaboratively and are all committed to our core mission, that every child has the potential to succeed. Having just celebrated our 20th anniversary, we are shaping our goals for the next 20 and there has never been a more exciting time to join us.

Apply with a CV and cover letter on our online recruitment portal. Applications to be submitted by Thursday 2nd March at 10am but please note: we will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this advert may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response.

For further information or a confidential discussion, please contact Natalie Sullivan on Natalie.sullivan@arkonline.org.